I think the best advice I could give a new vinyl collectors (older ones as well) is .....really try to make sure you don't find yourself trying to "Keep up with Jones". In other words it's so easy to get excited about collecting vinyl so you start watching tons of videos of youtube or facebook and next thing you know you somehow are now out scraping your pennies together and buying things because "others" have told you it's what you "Must Have". That is a great way to zap your wallet and positive vibe with vinyl really quick. Just always try to focus on making your collection represent YOU and YOUR FEELINGS! Nobody else!
One gets out of it.. what one puts into it. I rescued 200 vinyls.. frankie valli.. etc.. they had weird plants growing into them.. it took months.. I got great tunes.. and somehow these have absolutely the best clearest sound ever. I've seen some bad records in the past.. but these were toast, or so I thought. They are more resilient than even I thought. They all play. Ps. The old media out there.. cant be changed at the whims of censure. 😊
@@OllieSach Music from 1890-1950* were presed on shellac wax or vinyl mixed discs. 3.5 mil or 3 mil stylus for playback. Not the usual 2 mil, and they can't be cleaned with ethanol.
If you collect vinyl or are just starting to I have a suggestion. Tell everybody you love vinyl and record collecting. Tell your friends, family, friends of your parents,etc. You wouldn't believe the amount of free records that have come my way from people knowing I want them. Even if there not your genre/taste you can keep the ones you want and sell/trade the rest.
Gen X here. Was a record collector. Had over 2000 vinyl records. Git divorced, had to move to shitty place and walk up five stories. I left all my original hip hop records dating back to late 70s on the street. I liked Napster, changed the way i listened to music. They are large and heavy them records
@@OllieSach Yea thanks and if you do get a can of it make sure your record is as clean as possible when you use it it s not a deep cleaner and not for use on old dirty records ,, take a soft dry eye glass cleaning cloth and look at the vinyl at the right angle to chek out the dust on your record even if you have previously cleaned it and get it off before a use .I spray two short times on the pad that comes with it and that is all you need ..The directions on the can says to take one dry pad and wipe the treatment pad ,but that makes no sense to me ..As long as the product is sprayed on evenly and that is it. It is a one time use basically and not for every time play and it is not a gimmick. I have used it on expensive MOFI albums over 14 years ago and they look and sound new
YOU BETCHA VINYL IS THE THING I'VE BEEN COLLECTING MY FAV ARTIST CONNIE FRANCIS SINCE 1971. I have a large collection on her and various rarities, but i also have cd, cassette, r2r, and so on.
@@djfloow5579500 albums, 250 cd's, 5 r2r, 50 cassettes, 500 45's and it's all Connie. Have you ever had vinyl? I also collect other artists but not so much. Shaky Stevens i have a few things. Cilla black, nana mouskouri[her greek songs]
I think the advantage of vinyl is not so much the media itself but the fact that originally it was recorded onto tape and then pressed out on vinyl format. Problem came when they recorded music digitally and produced it onto Cds and vinyl (which yes these days is often a cd on vinyl format). Music for me is not suitable for a digital media. Storing info etc is great in digital format but not music to be played back. Reason why they changed was because it was cheap and suited the process of recording and subsequent copying for public consumption. Public warmed to it because you could ride along on your bike and listen to music etc and it was convenient for the casual listener.
I fear many people don't realize digitally recorded masters are still higher quality than a CD. Digitally recorded records are not a CD on vinyl and If you have a skippy portable CD player with a cheap DAC then you may want to records a mix tape from your records that wont skip or sound like an mp3.
I invested in an ultrasonic record cleaner to keep my LPs as pristine-sounding as they can. It's the same kind of thing jewelers use to get the grit out of tiny crevices. Just put a few drops of surfactant in a gallon of distilled water, load up to six records on a spindle, and let them rotate through the liquid with ultrasonic vibes. I'm amazed at how well a good cleaning can restore the sound of a record to (sometimes) better than factory-new -- as long as it was only dirt-encrusted and not actually scratched. It's increased my vinyl enjoyment enormously!
@@OllieSachultrasonic cleaners have been expensive, although I believe there is one out that is more reasonable. My Pro-Ject VCE is a wet cleaner with vacuum cleaner that cost under £300. I picked up five secondhand records this week for £6 each they play really well and look like new following cleaning. New records have release agent which also needs to be cleaned off to stop it from gunking up your stylus. Good video, by the way. One thing, don’t pinch your records at the edge if you can avoid it. Drop the records out of the sleeve into your hand so your fingers only touch the label.
If you are buying new music (1980s ----> ) look and see if if it was recorded digitally, if so sound wise you are better off listening to it digitally. Unless you like all the packaging, vinyl colors, weight, volume, storage, and equipment you have to deal with, then go for it.
@@OllieSachnot necessarily. One of the reasons vinyl sounds so good today is because of the mastering. In the ‘90s the loudness war kicked off and digital remastering became the norm. This pushed loudness up using compression and limiting, ruining the sound. Given a choice between a CD with the original mastering and the remastered version always take the former.
Don't bother, most vinyl these days is digital anyway, so you might as well just stream the file. And thats coming from someone who's been collecting for 30yrs
